Bryan Cranston joins us to talk about “Breaking Bad” and “All the Way” – and about his funnier roles on “Seinfeld and “Malcolm in the Middle.”
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A Conversation With Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm joins us to talk about the experience of watching her husband die – and about her plans after retirement.
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What We Know About Animals
Some of our favorite animal experts join us to talk about what we actually know about how animals think and feel – and about the relationship between animals and humans.
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The Present As The Past
Chuck Klosterman joins us to talk his new book “But What If We’re Wrong: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past.”
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The Best First Impression
Harvard professor Amy Cuddy joins us to talk about how we can subtly tweak our body language to broadcast the image we want the world to see.
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A Talk With Werner Herzog
This hour, we’ll talk with the prolific German filmmaker about “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo,” “Grizzly Man” – and his newest effort, “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World.”
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How To Help Children Cope With Violence
This hour, as part of KERA’s American Graduate initiative, we’ll talk about how we can help young people process the many issues that contribute to these violent acts with a panel of child psychologists.
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A Girl’s Journey From Nothing To Something
This hour, we’ll talk with C. Nicole Mason about her memoir, “Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America.”
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How Screens Are Hijacking Kids
This hour, we’ll talk about how screen time can lead to ADHD, anxiety, depression and other disorders with Nicholas Kardaras. His new book is called “Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids – and How to Break the Trance” (St. Martin’s Press).
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Gun Deaths In America
This hour, we’ll explore the numbers behind gun deaths in the U.S. – and talk about how they can be reduced – with Ben Casselman, a senior editor and the chief economics writer for the website FiveThirtyEight.
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The Persisting Racial Divide
This hour, we’ll talk about how the Thirteenth Amendment led to Jim Crow laws, how Brown v. Board of Education led to shutting down public schools and other instances of Civil Rights backlash with Carol Anderson, chair of the African American Studies department at Emory University.
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Why Knowing Things Still Matters
This hour, we’ll talk about why internalizing seemingly unconnected data actually makes us better thinkers with William Poundstone. His new book is called “Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts are so Easy to Look Up” (Little, Brown and Co.).
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